Te Rangi Hiroa

Te Rangi Hiroa (15 December 1880-1 December 1951), also known as Sir Peter Buck, was a New Zealand Liberal Party MP for Northern Maori from 1909 to 1914, succeeding Hone Heke Ngapua and preceding Taurekareka Henare.

Biography
Peter Buck was born in Urenui, New Zealand on 15 December 1880, the son of a white father of Irish descent and a Maori mother. After his mother's early death, he was raised by her relatives and given the name "Te Rangi Hiroa". He was educated at Te Aute College, and he graduated from OTago University in 1905 with a medical degree. He soon became involved in the Young Maori Party of Apirana Ngata and Maui Pomare, and he set out to work for the improvement of Maori sanitation, hygiene, and health as a government Medical Officer for Maori Health from 1905 to 1909. He served as a New Zealand Labor Party MP from 1909 to 1914 and Minister of the Maori Race and the Cook Islands from 1912 to 1914, and he narrowly failed to be re-elected to a non-Maori seat in 1914 before embarking upon a successful military career in World War I. He served as Government Director of Hygiene from 1919 to 1927, and he researched Maori anthropology, becoming a leading scholar in the field. He later became president of the Bernice Bishop Museum of Ethnology in Honolulu in Hawaii, United States, and he died there in 1951 at the age of 74.